Please read this! An apprentice system for the United States Merchant Service

by John W. Goin

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: J. P. Wright, printer, 146 Fulton Street, 1853. 12mo, pp. 3 -14; original printed salmon wrappers; vertical crease, else fine. Urges Congress to pass a law authorizing and directing ship-owners to employ apprentices who will perform the same duties as the men, and in the course of a few years you will have on board your vessels a crew of able-bodied American seamen, trained under your own supervision, and taught to consider your interests

• Binding: Wrappers

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